The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-05-25

1873 covering the period OF partial Tecl-
nrocitv as established in 1854, and which
terminated in 1886. He went on:
ssDurfng that period Canada, of her products
sold to the United States in round numbers
500, OO0, 600 worth, the larger per cent
of which consisted of lumber or tim
Der. During the same period we
exported to Canada $84S 100000 worth
glad to learn how either Canadian or Yankee
prospered by reason of the immense tax
levied upon the goods so exported and inn
ported. / should be glad to learn just how
any blessing that attached to paying, one
third of the value of the goods so exchanged
Injured to the benefit of any considerable
number of our people. The men who used
these goods both in this country and Canada
paid price largely in excess of their value
and only because they were produced across
an imaginary line drawn from East to West,
and which marks the Northern frontier of
the United States and the Southern frontier
of Canada. Certainly tho philosophy of the
doctrine of protection has no application
here"
Mr.. Butterworth presented another tabu-
lar statement of the rates of duty paid on
these exchanges. They range from eleven to
one hundred and ffty-fiye per cent. ad yalo-
rem.
What are the objections to the removal OF
this burden? hear of none except as they
relate purely and solely to some local inter
ests. It is proper TO call attention to the fact
that one of the leading statesmen of the day,
one who has filed possibly larger place in
the public view than almost any other man
Of our day. allude to James G. Blaine-has
advocated, and most ably, commercial
union between the United States and
the South American states. His PROPOSE
ton has met with general favor, nor has it
been treated as a party question. If great
advantages are to be derived from such
union, how much greater and more import
ant are the advantages to be gained from an
intimate trade relation with those immedi-
ately upon our border, to whom we are
allied by ties stronger than those which
relate merely to commerce, and with whom
our trade, although they number but five
millions, is more than the trade with the
forty millions lying south of us and with
whom the commercial union is proposed.
submit statement which indicates how
much more valuable to the United States as
market Canada is than all the realms lying
south Of the Rio Grande, including Mexico
and the South American states.
During the year 1885 the United States
sold TO all the Central and South American
States but $27, 100000 in round numbers,
and to all countries lying south of the Rio
Grande in the aggregate s64, 100000. To the
100000 of people on the south we sold
$64, 100000, while to the 100000 of Ca
nadians we sold over $50, 000, 900.
If nnr hampered and restricted trade with
5000, 600 Canadians is over CSC, 600 600, what
will be the magnitude of our commerce in
that direction when the blockadeis removed,
and when our neighbors shall number
25,000,000 of people2
NO fhAh VI coMrEririoN.
Do American manufacturers fear COMPETE
ton? Certainly not. Do they and our mer-
chants desire the Canadian market with the
great possibilities that open up before them
In that direction Certainly they do. Does
the American farmer fear competition with
the Canadian farmer? 1t is simply impossi-
BILE. There could be no conflict of interest
On the contrary, experience abundantly at
tests that with every avenue of trade and
commerce between the sources of supply in
the United States and the markets of Canada
and between every source of supply in Cam
ada and the markets of the United States
opened up and uninterrupted, a new inn
petus would be given to every branch oftrade
and industry, and new era of prosperity
for both nations would dawn upon us.
II must not be forgotten that there arc
affecting the farmer certain Conditions which
no system of protection can control-the
rain and the sunshine. His crops depend
upon the earlier and the latter rains nor
his ground in the presence of a trouth or a
Observation-Disclosures OF rain: but the products
of the factory can he controlled. the outnrt
limited, and the prices fixed. His comneti-
tors for the European market are not In
Canada but in India and Russia, Canada
only nroduced tbe mast year ah"nf
seven Der cent. Of the wheat erown
in this country. There Are snec;ai
Interests which. Of course. win he affected
That the fishing Interest will he ser;onslv
crippled, / do not believe. nor can i agree
that that nursery Of seamen and school
which supplies the army or the militia ~ the
sea will si,ffer NV reason If fair cnnnetit;on
between the Canadians and tha mon 81 New
England who "a down Ia the sea IL catch
fish. III with similar conditions and fair
ornretifion VI cannot Mold mr. Nv, COO
and land the trouble must he fonnd in con-
ditions which are NOT To he riohted bv the
lowing Of q tax which increases fbe ,.;ce ~
every Goldfish hall and Of every mraclrerei
which is placed upon the table for food a.
far a. the timber Interest Is concern ed II has
no proper place in our system of protection.
the object of which is to build up industries,
but unfortunately for the timber industry in
this country the more it is protected, the
more il is cherished, the more speedily it
dies, and we are and have been taxing our
selves upon every single we use and every
beam that we require to construct dwelling,
not TO make strong an industry that will
flourish and grow and furnish more ample
Weld, but simply to nav a bonus to certain
individuals who have prospered beyond
measure, and without any corresponding
benefit to the great mass of the people OF
tl1S country upon whom the tribute was
levied.
The Canadian forests are limitless Their
timber is rotting and going to waste, while
the citizens of the United States are paying
enormous prices for a supply to construct
houses and make shingles to cover their
heads, and thousands of mechanics are idle
for want of the material-lumber-to enable
them to prosecute their calling Idle men ON
both sides of the line are the direct and nee
essary result of our absurd system. 1t is not
only absurd but an outrage upon our people
when one or two industries are permitted, nay
authorized, for their own benefit to tax every
other vocation, trade and calling in this
country, and thus impose needless burthens.
The time has come when both burdens and
blessings should be more equitably distrib-
uted, and what is proposed here is a step in
the right direction.
Inotc what is said touching the destructive
influence in international free commerce
upon the fisheries and some other Industries.
Its asserted with great force. and seemingly
the assertion is sustained by statistics. tRat
free fisheries for instance mean the destruc-
ton absolutely Of the American fishing in